robert gibbs is back.always admired and even back in the days when you and i used to stand shoulder to soldier and go at, i admired your former business's political skills. he's a campaigner of his own but he seems next level in this cycle. his attacks on trump are sharper and clearer and the softer underbelly of the covid failures as rosie perez was just artsic lating. is he enjoying this as much as he appeared to be enjoying this. >> if you see the video from the rally in philadelphia, he looks like he's absolutely enjoying this. watching the glee on his face making some of those kind of cutting remarks. you would think to yourself, boy, i haven't seen him that happy in a long time. he looked like he was thrilled. >> let me show some of that, what you're talking about. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> covid, covid, covid, he's complaining. he's jealous of covid's media coverage. if he had been focused on covid from the beginning, cases wouldn't be reaching new record highs across the country thi

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. >> joining me now, robert gibbs, former press secretary to president obama. michael steele, former republican national committee chairman. and nbc's mike memoli in detroit ahead of joe biden's arrival there for his big trip to michigan today. michael steele, first to you. the president's rather strange answer about that retweet only minutes after this interaction with savannah about qanon. >> let me ask you about qanon. it is this theory that democrats are a satanic pedophile ring and that you are the savior of that. can you just once and for all state that that is completely not true? >> so -- >> will you disavow qanon in its entirety? >> i know nothing about qanon. >> i just told you. >> you told me, but what you tell me doesn't necessarily make it fact, i hate to say that. i know nothing about it. i do know they are very much against, uh, pedophilia, they fight it very hard. >> they believe it is a satanic cult run by the deep state. >> i'll tell what you i do know about. i know about antifa and i know about the radical left. i just don't know about qanon.

robert gibbs, former press secretary to president obama, and dr. vin gupta, pulmonologist and global health policy expert at the university of washington medical center. peter alexander, you heard from chief of staff mark meadows this morning. what is the latest on the president's condition? because we haven't heard from the doctors in two days except for a brief statement. and the schedule, because there was some suggestion from meadows that he might even be wanting to go into the oval office, conceivably. that raises a lot of questions. you have to walk from the residence through all those corridors, to the elevator, presumably, his elevator, down through the other corridors in the white house, to the oval office, while they're trying to control the spread. >> yeah, not exactly isolation like you would imagine and like they've said they would be enforcing for this parking lot. >> exactly. >> in terms of his covid diagnosis right now, his infection. to give you a sense of the white house very quickly, andrea, this is a place that's in crisis and l

robert gibbs, you are hired. they are sticking around.ne last question for our panel. could it be that we're over thinking the whole thing. back with that after a quick beak. ♪ upbeat music transitions light under control. ♪ upbeat music transitions signature gen 8, available now in 4 new style colors. transitions. >>> it could feel a little bit like falling down the rant hole, watching the polls, reading the cross tabs but when it comes down to the election, we have to ask are we over thinking it. we have some context in politico today. sometimes you hear a voter hear something to basic that you're inclined to dismiss it until you hear it for the thousandth time. that's the story of this election across america about choices this november. i've been hearing the same thing over and over again. i don't like trump. sometimes there is a slight variation. i'm so tired of this guy, i can't handle another four years of this. many of the conversations never turn to biden. in phoenix several people who have just voted did not so much as mention h

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still with us, our professionals, steve schmidt wrg robert gibbs. ound to point out i think hillary clinton on this date in 2016 was ahead by exactly 14 points. with that in mind what would your charge to your fellow democrats be? >> well, look, i would ignore the polls and go full steam ahead on what you have to do to win this race, and that's to continue to assure the american people that you're capable and that you've got a plan for implementing that -- the change you need to see in the white house. but i think what was starting about that poll, this race has been remarkably stable, brian. it's been stable for a really long time regardless of all the ifs thrown at it. the average margin was biden by 8%. in february it was biden by 8%. in september it was biden by 8%. now it's 14. the american people got a good hard look of donald trump in that debate, and they liked absolutely nothing of what they saw. i don't think joe biden's going to win this race by 14 points, but one of the last moments that donald trump had available to him to begin to chang

highly overrated. >> so still with us are robert gibbs and tim miller. robert, your thoughts on this dynamic, which we are waiting to see unspool throughout the republican ranks. >> yeah, brian, i think you touched on it. i think we're seeing just the beginning of this. in somebody like a john cornyn who's up in what is probably going to be a much closer re-election than he ever wanted to, to give you a sense in texas more than 4 million early votes are already in. almost 45 -- sorry, almost 50% of the 2016 turnout has already been hit in the 2020 race with 15 days to go. i think these are guys that are desperately trying probably way too late to try to separate themselves. i think when you look at the ben sasses of the world, i think they're laying down the marker of, wait a minute, i was never really in this camp as we head into what's going to be a heated contest on the republican side in 2024. so i think they're going to divide into each camp. what will be interesting is, if we get into this election where the president feels like he needs to contest

james phillip, robert gibbs, thank you for being on the show. lester holt will have a town hall with joe biden tonight. it's a one hour prime time event. you saw the chairs behind mike, social distanced. they're asking biden where he stands on certain issues. i'll see you as part of that coverage later tonight. >>> we have on the ground at walter reed and the white house. medical experts standing by. first, the chief scientific officer of regeneron joins me with details on why president trump was put on their experimental co-vid drug. >>> plus, more how the diagnosis is up ending the race. how it effects the v.p. debate 48 hours from now. s from now in the middle of the darkest night it's true, i will rescue you oh, i will rescue you >>> so let's talk about that evolving picture of president trump's co-vid treatments. it looks a little bit different than what might be available to let's say you or me or the average american. he's being given at least three significant treatments. some still being tested and reviewed for covid-19 safety and effec

and robert gibbs, man, thank you for everything.. somebody got lost out there, a marine's wife had gone missing, i never expected to be a part of a huge murder case. >> my heart just sunk. something happened. >> we didn't know if she was stranded in the desert, or can we find her before she meets a horrible end. >> it's strange that he waited to report her missing. >> they were laughing and carrying on. >> there was something big going on there.

i want to follow up with you, robert gibbs.little bit sort of political wonkiness, but our viewers could all teach political science after these last four years, so let me just go a little bit deeper on this. structurally, this is exactly right. an incumbent president with an approval rating as low as donald trump's, and his approval rating, it has always hovered around 40%, cannot win if the conversation and the news in these final weeks is about that president. one of the things that someone involved in debate prep said to me is that he is constitutionally incapable of shutting up long enough to let the conversation be anything that his opponent says because he doesn't let him talk. it would seem that with that locked in now, with this race clearly in the minds of the american voters, a referendum on donald trump's presidency, on his failures to contain and protect people from covid, there is very little that pence can do tonight to alter that. >> i think it's tremendously difficult, the task that he has, because he's not sim

still with us, robert gibbs and lonnie chen.ant to show you trump today with martha mcsally. remember, this is a woman who has signed over, as have many members of the u.s. senate, her political life to trump and trumpism. she's fighting for her political life in return for this. >> martha, come up, just, fast. quick. fast! fast, come on, quick. you got one minute. one minute, martha. they don't want to hear this, martha. quick, quick, quick. let's go. >> i'm coming. thank you, president trump. >> robert, i'm tempted to ask how he treats the people he likes. and what downballot races are you watching, how confident are you that the control of the u.s. senate for starters will shift. >> look, i think the races that are watched, that you want to watch here, the races like arizona, which you just talked about. north carolina, colorado, maine, obviously alabama. it's going to be a contested race. within that top tier set of races, right now you would say the democrats, as many of the polls do, are slight favorites to control the u.s

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at your lexus dealer. >>> white house press secretary for the obama administration, robert gibbs andjoins us as the current white house press secretary kalyleigh mcenany self-isolates. she removed her mask to spaeeako reporters. as everyone gets this virus, we wish her a speedy recovery but your views on the white house communications debacles here. >> absolutely. i wish everybody who has been exposed to this or who has tested positive for this, wish them well and to get well quite quickly. i think we've seen over the past several days starting with that briefing on saturday from the president's doctor, the white house bungled this at every single opportunity it had. it had a moment in which it could have elevated what was happening with the president into something larger, even you heard him say in the video last night and you thought maybe he'd make the turn where he said i learned a lot about coronavirus and the next thing as you've talked about in the show today. don't let it dominate you. maybe i'm immune. he's doing this without a mask. i mean, public health emergencies are mom

robert gibbs joins any now, who better to explain the coalition that biden needs to build and the coalition that donald trump had in 2016. robert, when you see the florida voting, you see the latin groups are now not certain about joe biden, the campaigning from the trump people trying to disparage biden, that's having an impact among cuban-americans, not so much among the puerto rican americans, also the seniors have really come home to biden. so how do you see -- come home to biden, who may not have been as much with barack obama. how do you see a different kind of coalition, if there could be a winning democratic coalition in florida? >> i do think it is interesting, andrea, when you look at it, you may have president trump doing slightly better with latino or hispanic voters and that's a little bit of a difference than 2008, 2012. even 2016. but then at the same time, white suburban voters and particularly senior voters that are big in places not just in florida but in arizona and pennsylvania, that are now leading where biden is leading. democrats haven't won that senior vote since al

and i think to go to robert gibbs' point it may just be that demography is destiny here.here aren't enough of them. but i'll say this tonight, and i had this reaction. it may have been watching it in person as opposed to the way it was experienced for the country, there is a lizard brain in this country. donald trump is a product of the white man's, the anguish, nervous white guy's lizard brain. and there could be a twitch there that you know what, we sent this disruptive figure, biden, maybe that 47-year thing helps a little bit. i don't think there are enough of those folks, but i think just as an observer of this -- i think trump did himself good with his base tonight. the question for america is how big that base is. >> john, on behalf of americans who are at some point going to start trying to go to sleep at 12:17 eastern time, thanks for the late in the evening lizard brain mention to really set viewers off on a glide path to slumberland. i know they all appreciate it though none of them can tell you. spectacular stuff. >> i was going to wear my mr. rogers sweater.

begin with our top political experts, professor jason johnson, washington post libby casey and robert gibbs who helped lead media strategy for barack obama's first campaign, welcome all. jason, going right to you, the candidate who is behind tends to have more to prove in a debate. is that pressure on donald trump tonigh tonight? >> yeah, ari, it is. donald trump has to try to do something tonight that he's never been able to do, appeal to his base and expand the base. that will be challenging because tonight he's going to be muted. the crazy outlandish things he says that tend to be beneficial and excite his base, he's not going to be able to do it. he's going to be the clean version of a donald trump album. every time he tries to interrupt and say a lie, somebody will block him. this will be a very challenging night for him. i don't know if he has the skill set to do it but if he can't at least change the media narrative of tonight's debate performance, this is going to be a ground game and right now he's behind in cash and feet on the ground. >> robert, you've prepped these and you know

joining us now, robert gibbs, and robert costa, alicia menendez, also erin haynes, editor at large forhe 19th. good evening and welcome to you all. mr. gibbs, we'll go in the order you were introduced. what was that we saw tonight, and what did you make of mike pence's initial claim, looking into the camera and saying from day one, the president has put the health of america first? >> well, i think we knew from the very first question that mike pence was on some very uneven ground. and understood that he was having to defend a record as vice president and as head of the coronavirus task force that was going to, even on the best day, be very hard to defend. you saw kamala harris get off to an extraordinarily strong start with that question. she prosecuted that case, she's happy to have this be the subject of not just that section but she brought it back to covid on a number of occasions. so i think you expected that that was going to be one of the first questions asked to mike pence. and it's hard to convince people based on what they've seen and felt, the stories and statistics, the wh

. >> you can see more of my interview with pete sousa along with obama press secretary robert gibbs and following tonight's television premiere of "the way i see it" at 10:00 p.m. eastern, commercial free, right after rachel maddow, right here on msnbc. get your tissues out, you are going to need them. and that is tonight's "reidout." "all n w krin with chris hayes"s right now. >> tonight on "all in" -- >> i was doing it right avoiding the virus, i let my guard down for several days inside the white house grounds and it cost me in a significant way. >> 18 days until voting ends and the president's campaign of deception continues. >> we are rounding the turn. i say that all the time. some of the media doesn't like hearing it. >> tonight, the grim reality and inkcontrovertible evidence of a third coronavirus wave. then, after joe biden won the popular vote on television last night, are americans just border with trump's

it'll be obama's first campaign event for biden, and joining me now is nbc news political analyst robert gibbs, former white house press secretary under president obama. robert, good to see you. pennsylvania is a critical swing state in this election. you know it was won by former president obama and vice president in both '08 and '12. so what does it tell you that president obama is on the trail there, and do you think he's going to be able to bring pennsylvania to biden? >> well, it's a great question. i think pennsylvania is clearly the lynchpin of this upper midwestern strategy. i think democrats probably feel better and feel pretty good about places like michigan and wisconsin if you look at some of the public polling. i think pennsylvania's clearly the lynchpin. that's why you see one of the democratic party's most popular surrogates heading there in barack obama. he can reach base voters, he can reach swing voters. really important to get him out there on the trail. he's pretty active on zoom and over digital communications. and now this is in that part of the campaign that you see him

and, robert gibbs, thank you for everything and the honesty that came from that office when you were running the shop. thank you all for joining us tonight. thank you. have a good night. >>> this is world headquarters in new york. and this is "the week." >>> from a moment of church to the affairs of our state, we are 16 days from election day. let's focus on what's to come and what you need to know in the home stretch of this historic race. nearly 25 million voters have already cast their ballots by mail or in person. that is up nearly 300% from 2016. young voters made up 19% of the vote last time around. we will ask three college students about their efforts to get out the vote as they cast ballots in their very first presidential election. both president donald trump and joe biden were campaigning today. mr. biden held an event in durham, north carolina. the president attended a church service in raleigh, north carolina, a rally in asheville, north carolina and a rally. there is little talk about how to contain coronavirus in the white house. that is a big concern for the journalis

and robert gibbs who was press secretary under president obama. now that the president is home, what is the plan? how are they keeping other people in the white house safe? it was just a week ago the president looked at somebody with a mask and said, take that thing off. >> yeah, steph. well, the plan is multifold in terms of the president's medical care. he's expected to continue to be monitored 24/7. we know from his doctor he's supposed to receive the fifth dose of remdesivir some time today. his doctor also said yesterday, we're really in unchartered territory given the number of treatments that the president has had and that he wouldn't breathe a sigh of relief until next monday. in the meantime, the president and the white house are saying that he's set up to work in the residence so he can have a space he can continue to conduct the country's business. but there are concerns among people who are in the white house who say they, one, are not getting a lot of information about who is infected and being notified in terms of contact tracing and

with obama press secretary robert gibbs and director don porter immediately following tonight's television premiere of "the way i see it" at 10:00 p.m. eastern, commercial free, right after rachel maddow, right here on msnbc. get your tissues out, you are going to need them. and that is tonight's "reidout." "all n w krin with chris hayes"s right now. >> tonight on "all in" -- >> i was doing it right avoiding the virus, i let my guard down for several days inside the white house grounds and it cost me in a significant way. >> 18 days until voting ends and the president's campaign of deception continues. >> we are rounding the turn. i say that all the time. some of the media doesn't like hearing it. >> tonight, the grim reality and inkcontrovertible evidence of a third coronavirus wave. then, after joe biden won the popular vote on television last night, are americans just border with trump's reality show? >> plus, why is the president continuing to brag about a very suspicious killing by law enforcement in washington state and could control of the u.s. senate hinge on the price of soybeans

by pete souza, don porter, director of the way i see it, and former white house press secretary robert gibbsu, pete, it is good to see you through camera lens. i want to wish you condolences. i know that you lost your mom this week. i'm so sorry to hear that. i wanted to give you those condolences to start out. >> well, thanks, joy. it was, she was an incredible woman. she lived to 94. and went peacefully which is i guess a good thing. >> that is. did your mom have a favorite photo? a favorite photo that you took during your years as white house photographer? did she have a favorite of your photos? >> i think any photograph that i made was her favorite. you know, just the way a mother is, right? >> a proper mom. you know, watching this documentary, i have to admit, i teared up through a lot of it. just going back and remembering some of those poignant moments over the eight years that president obama was in office. i think probably cried the most during the sandy hook portion. it was incredibly moving. talk a little about being a floy on the wall in those really tough and painful moments whe

and robert gibbs, man, thank you for everything. and the honesty that came from that office when you were running the press shop. thanks to all of you all for joining us tonight. >> appreciate that. >> thank you. have a good night. joining us, you, have a good night. >>> the desert is a strange place. so isolated. somebody got lost out there, a marine's wife had gone missing, i never expected to be a part of a huge murder case. >> my heart just sunk. something happened. >> we didn't know if she was stranded in the desert, or can we find her before she meets a horrible end. >> it's strange that he waited to report her missing. >> they were laughing and carrying on. >> there was something big going on there. >> i had no idea what we were getting in to. >> it makes me think of indiana jones, one wrong turn can be your last. >> this really can't be happening. we didn't realize there had would be a predator. >> they say theyou are feeling down, it's time to saddle up with a little love, trust, and respect these majestic creatures can eme